[packagekit] Proposal for RPM To CD functionality in Packagekit

[Mario]

We could probably exploit libburn/libisofs combination to pull off the
burning process. Even if their documentation is pretty good, I'd be happy to
advise on various implementation details which might not be that obvious or
something :)

KR,
M.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:20, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mario
>
> From birds eye view level i just thought when the update goes on if the
> plugin is enabled it makes a copy of the RPMs which gets downloaded in an
> other directory and then probably have a front end application which by
> default picks up the RPMs from that directory and writes on to the CD.
>
> This is my initial thoughts on it though i am not sure this would work and
> satisfy the requirement. i am looking into it on how it could be done too.
>
> Cheers,
> Balaji
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Mario <mario.danic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How exactly did you plan to implement the writing code?
>>
>> KR,
>> M.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:04, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I was just going through the docs in Packagekit and also the code and i
>>> was just thinking on how about Packagekit having a plugin kind of stuff
>>> where in it also does the job of  an offline repository creation which can
>>> be written on to the DVD. I thought its a good feature to have too. This
>>> helps in avoiding the same packages to be downloaded everytime and it could
>>> be shared too. I could start working on this if you feel that what i speak
>>> makes sense. I was talking to Richard on this few days back and i had told
>>> him that i would come up with a design note ( a small write up ) on what it
>>> would be like and how i propose to do it.
>>>
>>> Let me know your suggestions and comments.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Balaji
>>>
>>>
>>>
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